In order to thwart the evil machinations hatched by Machiavellian foreigners aided by traitors more dangerous one than the other, Jack Bauer, the valiant and unhappy agent of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit), combines varied geospatial techniques : GPS navigation software , Geographical Information Systems, spatial analysis tools, satellite images and maps on PDA device … The importance of geospatial information tools in ’24’ is obvious. It can be easily explained by the real time narrative technique used in the TV series. Because of time constraints, places and distance between places become crucial. Jack Bauer and other CTU agents or enemies struggle all day against space and geospatial technologies appear to be one response to this problem. You can find here a systematic inventory of uses of geospatial tools in the series.

In this article, I try to present a socio-cultural analysis of the role of this technologies in 24. All this stuff is only in French for the moment but You can use the google translating function proposed on the site to get a sort of English version.